Abstract: An organic EL device includes: an organic EL layer; and a hygroscopic layer that is disposed above and/or below the organic EL layer, and has a hygroscopic film, a first covering film, and a second covering film, the first covering film covering one of main surfaces of the hygroscopic film, the second covering film covering the other main surface of the hygroscopic film, wherein a relational expression A/B?0.2 is satisfied, where A denotes hygroscopicity indicating mass of moisture, expressed in g/m2, that is absorbable by the hygroscopic film per unit of area, and B denotes the number of defects per unit of area, expressed in pieces/mm2, that is calculated based on the number of defects in each of the first covering film and the second covering film.

Abstract: A microbial fuel cell (1) includes an electrolysis solution (2) including organic matter, a negative electrode (3) holding anaerobic microorganisms and being in contact with the electrolysis solution, and a positive electrode (4) including a water-repellent layer (41) and a gas diffusion layer (42) placed on the water-repellent layer. A ratio of an area of the negative electrode to an area of the gas diffusion layer is defined as T1, and a ratio of a maximum current density of the positive electrode at an electric potential of the positive electrode in an electrode system including the electrolysis solution, the negative electrode, and the positive electrode to a maximum current density of the negative electrode at an electric potential of the negative electrode in the electrode system is defined as T2. The ratios T1 and T2 satisfy the relationship of the expression (1): T21/2?T1?T22.

Abstract: A fuel cell system (100) comprising: a fuel cell (1) for generating electric power using a fuel gas; a fuel gas generator section (2) for generating the fuel gas using a raw material gas; a combustor section (2a) for generating heat energy to be used for generating the fuel gas; an air feeder section (2b) for feeding aft when the heat energy is generated; and a controller section (101); wherein the fuel cell is filled with the raw material gas before the fuel gas is fed, and wherein the controller section (101) performs a control operation such that the feed rate of air supplied from the air feeder section (2b) to the combustor section (2a) increases when the fuel gas generated in the fuel gas generator section (2) is supplied to the fuel cell (1).

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding plate having an opening, a protective plate, and a coordinate input device having a transparent substrate, and a first flexible interconnect substrate. The coordinate input device is disposed on the display panel at the side of a display screen, and each of the light shielding plate and the protective plate is arranged on the coordinate input device on the opposite side of the display panel. The coordinate input device has first signal interconnects and a second signal interconnect disposed outside the first signal interconnects but near a peripheral edge of the transparent substrate. The second signal interconnect is formed of a thin conductive film disposed along a peripheral edge portion of the transparent substrate, and is disposed along the peripheral edge of three sides of the transparent substrate.

Abstract: A high-frequency heating device of the present invention includes at least one high-frequency power generating part, at least one high-frequency power unit including a quadrature modulation part and a high-frequency power amplification part, a radiation part, a modulation signal generating part, and a control part, and the control part supplies the modulation signal generating part with a plurality of pieces of subcarrier information respectively including pieces of information of offset frequencies and phases, generates an in-phase modulation signal and a quadrature modulation signal, performs quadrature modulation in the quadrature modulation part, and outputs a plurality of subcarrier waves.

Abstract: In the case where selection of a device icon that represents an air conditioner and that is displayed in a region corresponding to one room on a floor plan is sensed in the region corresponding to the one room, an operation screen for operating the air conditioner corresponding to the selected device icon is displayed. In the case where a temperature is set on the basis of an operation of the operation screen, a control command for setting to the air conditioner the set temperature is output to the network, and information related to an operation state of the air conditioner is displayed in the region corresponding to the one room based on the operation of the operation screen.

Abstract: An image display method including: obtaining (S2301) combined data including (i) image data of an image having an item as a subject and (ii) first setting information indicating processing which a first electric appliance performs on the item; determining whether or not the first setting information is convertible into second setting information, the first setting information being included in the obtained combined data, and the second setting information being information in a format previously designated by a user and executable by a second electric appliance; determining (S2305) a first mark to be added to the image of the image data, if it is determined that the first setting information is convertible into the second setting information; and displaying (S2307) the image of the image data to which the determined first mark is added, the image data being included in the combined data.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive switch includes a first substrate, a conductive structure provided on the first substrate, and an electrode unit disposed to face the first substrate with the conductive structure interposed therebetween. The conductive structure includes an elastic component extending to protrude from the first substrate toward the electrode unit, and an electrode layer covering the elastic component.

Abstract: A recording device of the present disclosure includes a light source, an objective lens, a beam splitter, an optical element, a detector and an operation circuit. The optical element divides a light beam into a first main region, a second main region, a first main end region, a second main end region, a first sub-region, and a second sub-region. The operation circuit generates a main signal in which a first main end region signal is multiplied by a coefficient a and added to the first main region signal, and a second main signal in which a second main end region signal is multiplied by the coefficient ? and added to the second main region signal.

Abstract: A solar cell is provided with: a semiconductor substrate; an insulating layer formed of a silicon compound or a metal compound, and having a predetermined pattern over the substrate; and a surface covering layer formed of an amorphous semiconductor, having a same pattern as the insulating layer, and that directly contacts the insulating layer.

Abstract: Using a biopanning method, a heat-stable antibody-displayed phage is acquired. More particularly, first, an antibody-displayed phage library aqueous solution containing plural types of antibody-displayed phages is supplied to a support comprising a polypeptide on the surface thereof, so as to bind the plural types of the antibody-displayed phages to the polypeptide specifically. Next, the support is heated to the temperature of not less than 37 degrees Celsius and not more than 70 degrees Celsius, so as to release a portion of the antibody-displayed phages from the support and so as to leave the other antibody-displayed phages on the support selectively. Finally, the other antibody-displayed phages which has been left on the support selectively in the previous step is collected to obtain the heat-stable antibody-displayed phage.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit determines whether a received signal in a PHICH region is an ACK signal or a NACK signal. When doing so, the PHICH reception unit does not receive a PHICH in a subframe in which a terminal monitors an E-PDCCH. A control signal reception unit outputs a retransmission prompting signal to a signal allocation unit when the signal outputted from the PHICH reception unit is a NACK signal and when a UL grant was not detected. Meanwhile, when a UL grant was detected, the control signal reception unit outputs the detected UL grant to the signal allocation unit. The signal allocation unit maps the transmission signal in accordance with the retransmission prompting signal and the UL grant and transmits the transmission signal from a wireless transmission unit.

Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a substrate, and elongated light-emitting units arranged in rows on the substrate. Each light-emitting unit includes an element array of light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate and a sealing member sealing the element array. The sealing member contains a wavelength converting material. When the light-emitting units are viewed from a direction that is parallel to a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting units are arranged and coincides with a row direction being a direction along which the light-emitting units are arranged in rows, two of the light-emitting units are arranged such that portions of one of the two light-emitting units nearer to the center in the row direction are visible without being obstructed by the other light-emitting unit.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode foil that can form an organic electroluminescent device having a high external quantum efficiency despite the presence of the organic nitrogen compound at the interface of a metal foil and a reflective layer. The electrode foil of the invention includes a metal foil made of copper or copper alloy and a reflective layer provided on at least one surface of the metal foil. The electrode foil has an organic nitrogen compound at the interface between the metal foil and the reflective layer in such an amount that the ratio of the number of counts on the C—N bond to the total number of counts on the copper and the C—N bond: CN/(CN+Cu) in the organic nitrogen compound is 0.4 or less determined by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometric analysis (TOF-SIMS) of the interface.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having a rotary shaft, a pair of ball bearings for supporting the rotary shaft, and two brackets having bearing housings for holding the ball bearings. The motor further includes a washer between one of the ball bearings and an end wall of one of the bearing housings. The washer includes a plurality of claws. The washer is configured including a ring-shaped yoke and the claws the center parts of which are fastened to the yoke. These claws are configured to be bent in a U-shape, and the center part of the U-shape is fastened to the yoke.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an optical system, an image sensor, an optical element array which is positioned between the optical system and the image sensor, a memory that stores a group of coefficients configured with a matrix of n rows and n columns in which elements are expressed by Rik (i and k being integers that satisfy 1?i?n and 1?k?n), and a processor that receives the group of coefficients from the memory and calculates n converted pixel signals x?1, x?2, . . . , x?n from n pixel signals x1, x2, . . . , xn by the following equation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a current collector and a mixture layer attached thereto. The mixture layer includes an active material including particles of a first active material, i.e., a lithium-manganese composite oxide, and particles of a second active material, i.e., a lithium-nickel composite oxide. A proportion of the first active material particles in the active material is 51 vol % to 90 vol %. A volume-based particle size distribution of the first active material particles has a first peak on a larger particle side and a second peak on a smaller particle side. A first particle size D1 corresponding to the first peak is 2.5 to 5 times larger than a second particle size D2 corresponding to the second peak. A volume-based particle size distribution of the second active material particles has a third peak corresponding to a third particle size D3 satisfying D1>D3>D2.

Abstract: A coin-type lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material including a silicon alloy material, a conductive agent including a carbon material, and a binder. The silicon alloy material includes a phase A including a lithium-silicon alloy and a phase B including an intermetallic compound of a transition metal element and silicon. In the lithium-silicon alloy, a ratio of lithium atoms relative to silicon atoms is 2.75 to 3.65 in a 100% state-of-charge.

Abstract: A mounting method of mounting chips on a substrate includes a temporarily-bonding process, and a main-bonding process. Temporarily-bonding process is to perform a first basic process, repeatedly depending on the number of the chips. First basic process includes a first step and a second step. First step is to align, on a first metal layer of the substrate, a second metal layer of each chip. Second step is to temporarily bond each chip by subjecting the first and second metal layers to solid phase diffusion bonding. Main-bonding process is to perform a second basic process, repeatedly depending on the number of the chips. Second basic process includes a third step and a fourth step. Third step is to recognize a position of each chip temporarily mounted on the substrate. Fourth step is to firmly bond each chip by subjecting the first and second metal layers to liquid phase diffusion bonding.

Abstract: Provided is a content distribution method which allows a source device to safely distribute copyrighted content to a sink device in response to a request from the sink device as a trigger. The content distribution method includes a list transmission step S11, a content request step S12, and a content transfer step S13. In S11, a source device transmits metadata which includes a format identifier indicating that content is distributable under the specification of the HDCP and the URL of the content. In S12, a sink device makes a request for content identified by the URL after adding information necessary for authentication processing to the request. In S13, the source device creates an encryption key by performing the authentication processing on the sink device in accordance with the information necessary for the authentication processing, encrypts the content using the encryption key, and transfers the encrypted content to the sink device.